1. How was your week? When you think back on the week, what was the highlight?
It was good. Highlight of my week was going to Rome, hands down. Also, just seeing all my mission friends. I miss everyone so much and I just, like, love everyone and I was just so happy to see all my friends and see all my old companions. Also, there's a member from Palmero that came to the temple. She just happened to be at the temple so me and Sorella E served in Palermo together and we got to take a picture with her and it was so cute. Just being in Rome. Mission tour was incredible. Definitely the highlight.
2. How was church today?
It was so good. So, we really want to focus our members on Sii Una Luce (Light the World) because it's such a good movement and such a good way that we can invite the Spirit into our lives and that we can help other people have the Spirit in their lives, too. So we really are focusing on trying to get our members involved in this. It's a great way to do member missionary work. You can invite someone to participate with you and the Church has released a wonderful video of the nativity and this our go-to. This is our new program, our new initiative, that we're trying to do also to get our members involved in our work because they're so bravi! SO we passed around a little calendar and were -- and I explained it horribly, also -- I was like, ok, we want to come over to your house to do a 20-30 minute visit and explain this program of the church so that we can help ourselves feel the Spirit and help other people feel the Spirit and do missionary work. And we got 11 appointments for two weeks which is so awesome because right before the Anziano was saying, "oh yeah, I told you that when I came from Messina and we got one appointment" and we got 11! So that was awesome. So I'm really excited for this week because we can go do these member appointments and we can inspire people to be the light!
3. What did you do for P-Day today?
For P-day today we kinda just took it slow because I had a dermatology appointment in the morning so we went to the dermatologist, cleaned the house, and then we went to the market here in Bari which was super fun. It's not as big as Palermo and it's also covered, but I like it. It's cutie. I love markets.
4. When is your next zone conference?
Next zone conference....well, we just had mission tour so it will be a long time from now.
5. How have you served someone this week? How has someone served you this week?
I like to think that I served someone this week. I made my companion's bed the other day and put an extra blanket because our house is so cold. What else....I wrote notes for people. I don't know. I'm just trying to serve the Lord, you know? Someone served me this week...yes. I have not been feeling well this week and I started not feeling well when we were in Rome, like during Mission Tour. We had an hour to go out and I thought, oh my gosh, I'm going to throw up...but in a weird way...it's really pain, you know? We came back in a trio because the other sister in our house had to stay out. They were so sweet to me, so nice to me. I hadn't been sleeping well so they found extra blankets and pillows for me so that I would sleep well. It was so sweet.
6. Tell me about something that made you laugh this week.
That's a good question. I can't remember. Sorry.
7. Do you know how much I love you?
Yes.
8. What characteristic are you working on developing right now?
Patience! It's really hard! It's so hard. I'm working on looking outward instead of looking inward.
9. Tell me about the people you’re working with.
We have technically a lot of people that we're teaching, but they're not really progressing and I don't think that most of them know that we're working with them. Hahaha! So that's what we're trying to work on. There's this man whose wife is less active who is super bravo but he works on Sundays so he can't come to church. So it's really hard because he literally does everything for his family, he works so hard for his family which is incredible. For him it's hard to find the time to do the things that can strengthen his testimony. We're working with another woman and we had a lesson on prayer and we came back and asked her if she had been praying to God, since God is our father and is the one who can grant blessings, Jesus prayed to God, not the madonna, He said pray to God, Jesus wanted to give all the glory to God. So we came up and she said "I just pray in my own way to Jesus and the Madonna". *Sigh*
10. What was the most beautiful thing you saw this week?
The temple. It's so pretty.
11. Tell me about a tender mercy or miracle you experienced this week.
We've had really bad bus luck lately, but one day we just had such good bus luck.
12. What are you most proud of so far on your mission?
That's hard. I think the fact that I know that I have a testimony. Obviously I had some sort of testimony before I came on my mission or else I wouldn't be here. But I think the depth of it completely a different thing now. I look back and I'm like, "What was I??". So I'm proud of that and I'm very grateful for that. I'm very grateful for that.
13. How can we best support you in your calling as a missionary?
Just love me.
Mission tour highlights -- the new missionary handbook was released. I don't think I talked about that last week. It's really interesting. President talked about it a lot, like principle-based learning instead of rule-based learning, and broke my boxes because you know I love rules! Which is interesting -- this is something that I've been thinking about -- how obedience used to be one of my weaknesses. Heehee -- you all know very well! Like, if you told me to do something, I would either (a) barely do it, (b) do the opposite, or (c) I just didn't care about it. On my mission it's definitely become one of my strengths. And sometimes it's a little bit too much of strength in the sense that I'm, like, "Nope, it says this....Nope, we don't do that!...Nope, this is the rule..." and so the idea of principle-based learning is really interesting and I think I always hate because it's like, "There's not a line!" I can't say yes or no -- I have to listen to the Spirit. That was something really interesting. Also, Anziano Sabin talked about gratitude a lot. He talked about a lot of things, but he talked about how gratitude is the way that we will be happy and he challenged us to make a list of everything that we're grateful for, so maybe I'll do that on Thanksgiving because we don't have any plans. Gratitude is something I definitely need to work on but have gotten a lot better at. I definitely want to keep working on that. Also he talked about how we only take three things with us when we go -- our relationships, our knowledge, and we take our characteristics. That hit me, too, and I think if I'm not putting in my time and my energy to developing one of those three things, what am I doing? Yeah.
I love you all so much!
Ciao, ciao, ciao!!
First focaccia!
Old town
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